I am not a German, but I do talk to them daily. I hear their thoughts on the 'Deep SPD' that, like Obama's politicization of the USG - now being dismantled - has created eddies of power and corruption in the national and subsidiary polities. I also heard the disparagement of the CDU's pledge to never ally with the AfD, because this will cause them to be overpowered by the AfD allied with any of several other parties that AfD will dominate. A few things my German friends have provided me to consider here follow.
The recent Munich speech by VP Vance exposes the dramatic sea change in the political situation confronting the EU, and the member states of the EU, that are today affected from the direction completely opposite to what affected them only last month. Given the sudden rapprochement of the US to Russia, the prior intransigence and war profiteering (that has led to couping it's member states, most obviously Romania) appears to be utterly replaced with the Art of the Deal, and Germany has an opportunity it must seize with both hands, and every toe, IMHO, to gain the prosperity potential to it's people in the 21st Century - and avoid toppling from excessive exuberance pushing beyond superable policies.
The forces of history have apparently buried the prior power of political parties under the weight of their own anti-democratic policies that have underlain the massive immigration (and because of their expectation, now shown to be false, that immigrants would support them exclusively), the de-industrialization fomented by globalist conquistadors their minions have plotted to empower, and any narrative left of center, or even of centrists that neglect the inevitable blowback against collectivism presently exploding.
"We must be near peak insanity."
Yes, but past the peak, not approaching it. The collapse of the smug destroyers of the Volk has already been caused, their foundations blasted away, and their freefall only just beginning it's exponential acceleration. The real interests of the German people aren't represented by any of these external machinations, and only prescient leadership might present a truly centrist party that restores to Germany a balanced polity divorced from Machiavellian manipulation towards either cheek of globalism.
My recommendation is to suspend your disbelief in your gut, and trust fully your, and your fellow Germans, will to civil society (rather than power) that will demonstrate the superiority of win/win policies over anything lesser. Do not underestimate the blowback being fanned with the full vigor of reactionary powers. Failing to get in front of that current will prevent you from reining it in, and uncontrolled it may well lead again to terrible consequences. Transnational criminals represent both factions of that globalist power and the opportunity to supercede the machinations of the controlled opposition is briefly availed you.
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Very interesting publication. May God bless you and your family. And may you have a happy day